Album of Indian miniatures and Persian calligraphy, Walters Art Museum MS. W.669
Mar 15, 2016
This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, or possibly later. It contains nineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b), one of which is dated 1211 AH / 1796 CE (fol. 3b). The paintings, which date to the late twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE, come from a ragmala series attributable to the Deccan. A ragmala is a visualization of a musical mode or melody. This album contains a mix of visualizations of ragas (male musical modes) and raginis (female musical modes considered to be the wives of the male musical modes). The codex was formerly in an accordion format, and the multicolor flexible cloth hinges on the leaves are still visible. It was later rebound in a brown goatskin binding with a central lobed oval.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.
NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009
The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland
21201http://www.thewalters.org/
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Waldschmidt, Ernst, and Rose Leonore Waldschmidt.Miniatures of Musical Inspiration in the Collection of theBerlin Museum of Indian Art, vol. 2. Berlin: Museum furIndische Kunst, 1975.
Falk, Toby, and Mildred Archer. Indian Miniatures in theIndia Office Library. London; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981.
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fol. 10a:Title: Vasanta ragini (Vasant)Form: Illustration
fol. 11a:Title: An Indian woman, holding a fan, at a pondForm: IllustrationLabel: The identification is unclear on this page.
fol. 11b:Title: Gauri ragini (Gaudi ragini)Form: Illustration
fol. 12a:Title: Lalita raginiForm: Illustration
fol. 12b:Title: Hindola ragaForm: Illustration
fol. 13a:Title: Malava raginiForm: IllustrationLabel: The identification is uncertain on this page.
Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Binding The binding is not original.
Light brown leather (no flap); green onlaid central oval
Bibliography Gude, Tushara Bindu. "Between Music and History:Ragamala Paintings and European Collectors in LateEighteenth-Century Northern India." PhD diss., Universityof California Los Angeles, 2009.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of FineArts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967.
Ebeling, Klaus. Ragamala Painting. Basel: Ravi Kumar,1973.
Dahmen-Dallapiccola, Anna Libera. Ragamala-Miniaturenvon 1475 bis 1700. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1975.
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fol. 5a:Title: Female performing a ritual at night with a fullmoonForm: IllustrationLabel: The identification is unclear on this page.
fol. 5b:Title: Khambhavati raginiForm: Illustration
fol. 6a:Title: Khambhavati raginiForm: Illustration
fol. 6b:Title: Malavakausa raga (Malakausika, Malakausa,Malkos raga)Form: Illustration
fol. 7a:Title: Dipaka raga (Dipak)Form: Illustration
fol. 7b:Title: Shikastah calligraphyForm: Calligraphy page
fol. 8a:Title: Shikastah calligraphyForm: Calligraphy page
fol. 8b:Title: Bhairava ragaForm: IllustrationLabel: This is possibly Vasanta ragini.
fol. 9a:Title: Madhumadhavi raginiForm: Illustration
fol. 9b:Title: Shikastah calligraphyForm: Calligraphy page
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Decoration note: Nineteen Indian Rajput-styleminiatures; borders of various colors; gold frames
Decoration Upper board outside:Title: BindingForm: BindingLabel: This light brown leather binding has a greenonlaid central oval.
fol. 1b:Title: Nata raginiForm: IllustrationLabel: This ragini is known in some sets as Sindhuragini.
fol. 2a:Title: Karnata ragini (Kanada ragini)Form: Illustration
fol. 2b:Title: Sri ragaForm: Illustration
fol. 3a:Title: Megha ragaForm: Illustration
fol. 3b:Title: Shikastah calligraphyForm: Calligraphy pageLabel: This page shows shikastah calligraphy after themodel of Mīrzā Ḥasan, dated Iṣfahān, Ramadan 1211AH / 1796 CE.
fol. 4a:Title: Todi raginiForm: Illustration
fol. 4b:Title: Asavari raginiForm: Illustration
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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.669
Descriptive Title Album of Indian miniatures and Persian calligraphy
Text title MuraqqaʿVernacular:
Note: Title supplied by cataloger
Abstract This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late thirteenthcentury AH / nineteenth CE, or possibly later. It containsnineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastahcalligraphy (fols. 3b, 7b, 8a, and 9b), one of which is dated1211 AH / 1796 CE (fol. 3b). The paintings, which date to thelate twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth centuryAH / nineteenth CE, come from a ragmala series attributableto the Deccan. A ragmala is a visualization of a musicalmode or melody. This album contains a mix of visualizationsof ragas (male musical modes) and raginis (female musicalmodes considered to be the wives of the male musicalmodes). The codex was formerly in an accordion format, andthe multicolor flexible cloth hinges on the leaves are stillvisible. It was later rebound in a brown goatskin binding witha central lobed oval.
Date Late 12th century AH / 18th CE -- 13th century AH / 19th CE
Origin India (Deccan)
Form Album
Genre Historical
Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Extent Foliation: 13
Dimensions 20.5 cm wide by 29.5 cm high
Written surface 13.5 cm wide by 21.0 cm high
Contents fols. 1b - 13a:Title: MuraqqaʿHand note: Written in shikastah calligraphy (fols. 3b,7b, 8a, and 9b)
This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011
A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.669, Albumof Indian miniatures and Persian calligraphy
Title: Muraqqaʿ
Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201
http://www.thewalters.org/
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